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so people are taken into custody in georgia as protests over alleged torture and abuse of the country's prisons continue. deadly period there are wildly levens stalled islamists had clashes in a backlash against last week's killing of the gloss on boxing day while seventeen killed in pakistan during clashes over the us and on to islam found. thousands are said to march in scotland's capital to demand it goes it alone independent on the u.k. . international
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news live from moscow this is an see with me by the hour thanks for joining us georgian please have a rest at least for protesters as public fury fled after the leaks video was shot in may to one of the country's prisons being tortured and sexually appeased by gods and let's now get more on this from going on in tbilisi for us good morning hugo the protesting georgia showed no sign of dying down the protesters saying. oh absolutely the protests are continuing there have been more arrests and some clashes between the activist and the police i know there's a group of activists trying to breaking through a police wing around one of the government buildings on friday and while the people are still the public in general is still very angry when. with these videos the are
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demanding for the arrest of the one former interior minister who's resigned after these videos one public but many fewer say that that's not enough they want all those officials responsible to be not only sacks of war for them to resign but also to be arrested and prosecuted in fact many here are comparing the footage which shows alleged. torture pretty much and the human sexual abuse of georgia inmates from the infamous guantanamo prison except if that houses their terror suspects here we're talking about just ordinary georgian inmates which is creating a huge wave of public anger now on friday journalists were allowed for the first time to visit the gold on the prison that's where allegedly the footage is from and they spoke with some of the inmates who said that they are still afraid that they
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are going to be abused by the authorities even though president saakashvili has temporarily substituted all prison staff in order for those in georgia with police officers a so the inmates say that they are not sure that that is going to help improve the situation for more abuse on t. have actually talked to the mind who needs the shocking video is filmed a big children present what did he give us these reasons fall blowing the whistle for revealing on their own. well what seemed to be the crowds that used to be one of the senior staff members of the prison he's now in belgium has already asked for political asylum since he's saying that while georgian authorities are searching for him he says that while he is. he's not involved in politics is. leaking these videos was just to show the world. how president saakashvili really
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treats the citizens since. claims that he filmed these videos by the waters off the head of the prison he also claims that the former interior minister still and some of this footage as well and showed it to president saakashvili heat and he claims that he did not know anything that was going on in the country so according to be the guns and this is a very widespread story ends well he also described. how the inmates were chosen for this abuse he says sometimes it was just a random people but often the war those who are opponents all for saakashvili species all this is definitely a huge blow to the georgian authorities efforts to create this image of a transparent why certain democratic penitentiary system and well the election to parliament discovering up just on the first of october and according to the latest
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polls here in georgia the ruling party and president saakashvili may have ordered us up to twenty percent of votes because of these videos since people are quickly and massively losing trust in the current affairs. if he has gone off or holding their life from the georgian capital tbilisi you are many thanks indeed and that's how date. thousands have taken to the streets of libya's second seat have been ghazi to demand an end to the tyranny of armed militias people have been killed and over twenty injured outside it is the myspace. fixit several brigade setting buildings and cars and fire militia members shot into the add to try and despise the crowds the killing of the u.s. ambassador to be and three other americans of which one of the groups is suspected to be responsible for sparked the violence of the u.s. state department officials occurred when i found the american consulate to the
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ground and now for all of the last night that not the prophet muhammad it's the islamist militias and legacy of the uprising that moment down. that's the traditional killing and journalist actually while says the u.s. foreign policy is destabilize the region. the cause of what we're seeing here today is many decades of foreign policy that backs interventionist type of occupation in countries around the world the middle east is just another region that has been destabilized as the u.s. to really play the role as the front line in the international spread of democracy on behalf of western intel the u.s. has built you know over nine hundred bases one hundred forty five countries around the world spreading democracy at the end of a gun barrel or with the drones flying overhead forcing citizens that never asked for the and for the u.s. invitation to come to the envoys to come into the into their countries to democratize them is what is causing these these conflicts that you're seeing today this crisis is warranted because of us foreign policy in the interventionist style
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the tactics that are you looking utilized in order to occupy these nations and create chaos out of which centralization is the desired goal. meanwhile in pakistan at least seventeen people were killed on friday in prashant start with the u.s. navy and to islam film they government declared the day law for the prophet day but it didn't stop violence from iraq saying throw off the country and islam about four houses try to breach the u.s. embassy and clashed with police in the pakistani capital diplomatic area police used tear gas bottles and fired bullets into that to despise the crowd in the northwest city of bashar while rampaging crowds set fire to cinemas pakistan has seen almost a week of violent protest over the us made film the innocence of muslims cross is also running in lebanon after friday prayers foreign policy outlets throughout the neighborhood says the under islam film is breeding extremism. this is just all extents and purposes oh jihadi just recruiting video. we've seen of her us that the
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u.s. government. in some cases successfully rescued you to suppress what they consider to be jarvis recruiting leaders in the west even in parts of the u.s. government there is a prejudice against muslims which is reflected in the u.s. foreign policy and contribute to the atmosphere which these events are unfolding to pakistan you see shooting the drone strikes is overwhelmingly opposed by pakistani could pinion by. a political party against stance a bully by the government this is a tremendously resentment in pakistan against the united states fortunately the military and the cia and to this policy even though many former and current u.s. diplomatic and political officials believe that the car that the drone strikes are
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counterproductive are causing united states more harm than good. you know washing our say is great to have you with us and still to come on the program tear gas and stun grenades they used to despise approach with in bahrain as demonstrations against the monarchy break. the case as it has no plans to increase well planned payments in the next two years. who is trying to make. that later but now thousands are said to march for independence in edinburgh this weekend with people flocking to the capital from across scotland and referendum to break away from the u.k. is due to be held in twenty fourteen and it's expected that the details could be hammered out by next month. the event taking place in edinburgh is being trumpeted as a stepping stone to the referendum to be held on independence in two thousand and fourteen the organizers want similar demonstrations to take place on the annual basis
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building up to that vote try and gain some momentum on the issue the organizers also stress not going to be supporters of the scottish nationalist party in attendance also like see those who normally vote for the labor party for liberal democrats or conservatives any issue indecision when it comes to independents likely to be thrashed out here in the building behind me in westminster and here is where alex town the head of the scottish nasa sparty just this week met david cameron the prime minister he also though some received view from the work and pensions minister he said. the scottish national party wouldn't be able to handle the welfare state independently something that sounds supporters are said is assaulting an attitude that really few calls for independence top of the one the main issues that is fueling the fire when it comes to independents has been the handling in westminster of finances on the back of the financial crisis something
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it's received a lot. of criticism and underpinning all of that off shore north sea revenues expected to earn about thirty four billion dollars on an annual basis and that's something that scotland and its populace seem increasingly wanting to get their hands up. by the way our online news team is keeping you up to date with the events in scotland on home and while you are there check out some other stories to. the american media is losing the tranced of the people the majority of americans have stopped expecting mainstream news to be attractive. in class failure pays as punish woman who became famous for blemish in a nineteenth century fresca looks to cash in on the fiasco. does die without any more news coming up in just a few. the
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legacy no one should be proud. of scrap metal pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the burgen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if the guiding principle here is the worse the better local life to tell the story that back in soviet times when no regions were visiting barons were they also in express lanes when it was and how prosperous the settlement was
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well times have obviously a challenge when they saw it lags say it's still attracting the region tourists are barons word i would then cons watch native cash that's why one based bad they're ruining our goal is common as was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the venue and put it at variance work central square that can do nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain its own cost. half way between north america and western europe bergen archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of stars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's
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a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in terms of profit is far behind local server near shops so we've memorabilia it is a big hit the defunct are incurred and still helps keep the money flowing as it's all rushing through your show but you can't put it. there on. your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts are not very popular with tourist operators if you come into a very authentic place like barnes should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on as the time to change even for the better is not always
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good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to the repertoire of the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comfortably familiar. scene in bahrain security forces have fired see a gas and stun grenades at anti-government demonstrators at least twenty nine war arrested shy protesters. for ninety one back home discrimination by the sunni
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militants on wednesday the reins leaders every time said most of the u.i. human rights with conditions pledging to suppress violence and improve treatment of political prisoners more than fifty people have been cowed and rest which has been ongoing since having last year but international affairs and defense analyst the us chastity is the bahrain government. of iraq. i believe that they are going to continue with their repressive measures and if they appear that they are going to cause those issues that's just got to be cause may take a window dressing but i believe they have the backing of the west particularly if washington says it's a strategic ally of the united states made your oil trading partner us will it where the headquarters of the fifth u.s. fleet if the persian gulf are located he bahrain i don't think that the arrow for barry has the least to do with this to try to sleep and as for at the
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freedom of speech of the shia majority of bahrain. appears like yes they are called to see the. their equipment patients that need of course that they are going to try to follow them implement them try to relax their repressive over the majority of the bahraini population but it's just for the media for public upbeat the old for the west. and let's now take a look at some other news making headlines around the wall the signs thousands of demonstrators have rallied in portugal to retire the government's austerity measures police shot rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds three people were arrested during the clashes with no injuries reported it comes a week after more than one hundred fifty thousand people took to the streets to protest the comments. you are drawn strike targeting suspected militants has killed four people in a tribal area of northwest pakistan the victims were inside their car when they
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were ahead by missiles fired by the unmanned aircraft as the first u.s. drone attack since protests began against the u.s. of an islamic phobic film pakistan has persistently asked the u.s. to stop launching the missile strikes a request the u.s. continues to ignore. i quote also says it's considering asking britain to also wise transferring children astonishes embassy in sweden so he can respond to sex crimes charges that ecuador also says the whistleblower could be questioned at its embassy in london where sound has been holed up since june the u.k. is it to respond aquittal wrong to the wiki leaks editor at asylum last month but the standoff continues a son's fears that if he was sent to sweden he would face all would exposure to the u.s. to stand trial for leaking diplomatic cables. riot police had to be called into a suburban dutch town where around four thousand party goers turned out at a teenager's best day party the crowd threw stones and bottles and even bicycles at
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police who had been put on standby after the party invitation went to wire on facebook the girl forgot to mark a band as private and had to flee her home after over one hundred thousand users said they would attend. you know without coming up later in the program are you safe online. not enough is being done on the part of the government and there's too much by. interest in everybody's private business it's more of like a cultural thing i think everybody just wants everybody's stuff he's resident hit the streets of new york to find out if there's nothing done to keep on line behind and shopping accounts say from. the u.k.'s plans to freeze social support is causing alarm among the growing number of people in the country you have finding it hard to make ends meet while the payments are set to stay at the same level for the next two years despite inflation. explains. it's
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areas such as this one london's tory on a state that have been bearing the brunt of the british government's austerity drive already more than one in four children here in the u.k. live in poverty and sadly that figure is only projected to increase even so the coalition government says that they need to lash. out on the welfare bill in order to cut national debt by twenty fifteen now the british chancellor george osborne is reportedly considering freezing the working age benefits in order to hit that target we're already talking about groups of people who are squeeze are struggling have had their living standards affected over the last couple of years because of what's happened in the global economic environment and what's been nothing to i said to him if this change or something like it was to go through we would see those living standards further affected for the worst at the moment welfare
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payments are linked to inflation and that is increasing much frost of the wages back in june prime minister david cameron said that it's unfair that the awnings of the people that do work in the u.k. are increasing much more slowly than the benefits of the eight percent of the british population that is currently out of work now analysts see another group being dragged into this and that's the so-called we used middle that are currently struggling with being creasing cost of food fuel and clothing almost seven million working adults here in britain struggle with the basic cost of living and it's areas such as these where the trickle down effect of stretched pay packets and a benefits freeze are going to be devastating. with crowds of people eager to get their hands on the new i phone five just huge that apple is now researching new
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ways to know precisely just where you use your device but some are fighting back and computer gurus from around the world are now teaching people how to keep their privacy in their hands on she's resident laurie hoffman it's find out if people in the big apple know how to protect themselves. security professionals and hackers around the world are holding classes in cryptography to teach people how to protect themselves in the digital world how concerned are you with your virtual privacy this week let's talk about that are you worried about your privacy online or on your computer or privacy very. many people are crazy you know and i know that he's he's only just signed up for it in a banking because he was always concerned that someone was going to come he's a carrot and steal his money but i mean it comes out of convenience it's easier just to go online and check everything but it's it's a bit scary did you use
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a password bet is your pet or your street name or something like that or just. because that's an easy one to get yeah what do you think is the biggest villain out there in terms of invasion of privacy is it the public at large the government hackers. i'd say not so and not enough is being done on the part of the government and there's too much public interest in everybody's private business it's more of like a cultural thing i think everybody just wants everybody's stuff you know yeah and it's weird that companies are making money off of people's private information that's to be expected if they can make money they will i don't give me information in just give my name and maybe a photo. that's all what about on your computer though do you have sensitive files . that maybe better think about it yeah i think about it but. if you can encrypt would you take a class to learn how to encrypt and you don't care that much. do you keep any
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personal back on your computer yeah you know what would you take cryptography class to learn how to protect it more. probably not no. the study italian why do you think people don't do more because i think. they really expect it's going to happen to other people and never to ourselves the same reasons we eat poorly and don't accessorize at the same reasons we don't protect ourselves are you suggesting that whether or not you're concerned about your digital privacy the bottom line is that virtual world is swiftly becoming what the real world says a place where big brother and bad forces might be watching you. shortly will bring you the story of the hopes and dangers that cities in bangladesh that's all effectively graveyards for ships.
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the world. science technology innovation all the lives developments around russia we've got the future covered. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the law ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes up many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious tele cation. alexei wants to become and herds cattle as part of this preparation. however these beasts
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get a musical company. they can remember sound sequences you know they want to the sound signals the flutes the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just fun but these meadows didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. they grow their own crops found their own fish and repair their own churches . but the central purpose of the lawn has always been religious the main monstrous surrounded by smaller priories spread through the many archipelago the monks here know their existence is a little different from that of other ministries here we are out of the way and we do have. bill creams and song times tourists as well but
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only. tranquility use. this to. understand combination of high religion and down to earth hard work than motivates these men. download the official application to self choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time any. wealthy british style. that's not on.
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